Auction 22 - Books, Manuscripts and Rabbinical Letters

Pesach LaShem – Constantinople – 1559

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Pesach LaShem, Kabbalistic commentary of Haggada, “composed by… the Kabbalist scholar Rabbi Chaim ben Gabai… Rabbi Meir Ibn Gabai”. Constantinople, [1559]. Printing press of Yosef Chacham HaLevi.
4 leaves, 18.5 cm. Wear on margins with missing sections (professionally restored). Elegant leather binding.
Printing apparently incomplete. Majority of copies contain only first pamphlet which consists of 4 unnumbered leaves (as listed by Ya’ari in list of printings of Constantinople). National Library in Jerusalem is presently in possession of the second pamphlet which consists of leaves 5-8 and ends with “Ha Lachma Anya”. Exceptionally rare. All known copies, substantially missing on margins; in this copy majority of restoration performed on original leaves.
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